The defeat of Cynthia McKinney is a defeat for the old guard liberal Black Leadership

The African American Republican Leadership Council ^ | 21 August 2002 | trueblackman

[Trueblackman]

The defeat of Cynthia McKinney is more of a defeat for the old guard liberal black leadership than for McKinney herself. McKinney had the support of saleouts liberal blacks such as Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King III and NOI Leader Louis Farrakhan, but it was not enough to overcome Republicans and Conservative Southern Democrats who were sick of Cynthia McKinney and her mouth. Cynthia McKinney thought she could continue to play the race card over and over again even as her district changed.

Cynthia McKinney sought to split American over 9-11 and made the baseless claim that President Bush knew the attacks where going to happen and did nothing to stop them. Cynthia McKinney also took money from those who had ties to international terrorist groups.

Yes Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hillard defeats are defeats for the old guard of liberal 1960's Era liberal promoted black leaders.

[Trueblackman]

Yes the days of liberal promoted black leadership are numbered and they should soon start dying off. Remember the rantings of the old fool Julian Bond down there in Houston 2 months ago. The new younger up and coming black leadership on both sides of the political sphere are more conservative than the old guard. Goodbye and Good Riddance to both Hillard and McKinney and hankies all around for the DU Lurkers on FR

[mhking]

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[cardinal4]

Great news, although I dont think its just Black issue; Americans are becoming more conservative regardless of race. The funny thing is, the Klintons, Leahys, Daschles,etc just dont get it.

[backhoe]

Amen, friend- Americans don't need McKinney's brand of divisiveness any more.

[FreeAtlanta]

Out of curiousity, how much annual "retirement" does Cythina, Bob Barr and the other defeated incumbants get?

[GailA]

You haven't met rep harold ford jr...strictly a klintoonite deluxe.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

The country certainly doesn't look very conservative if one were to evaluate it based on CSPAN Callers. That show biases all the questions and 'politically correct' call lines to promote Dems. Their typical question is 'Do you
think Bush is a jerk?' with 50% of the lines going to 'yes' and the same to 'no.' Given that 70% of the country backs
our President, that biases the whole viewer segment against
him. Besides that, since the program has changed its lines
from geographic ones and the callers simply spout out the
DNC soundbite of the day, I know of no conservatives who
can watch it any longer. I wonder why Brian Lamb doesn't do something. I'd love to know what their ratings are today
as compared to those before they tried to promote Gov Klinton's election by changing the line distinctions.

[InvisibleChurch]

i'm afraid i haven't stayed up with the majette campaign, but how do we know that she isn't nuts, too? - what is her background?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Ben Gray / AJC

Denise Majette celebrates at her late-night election party in Decatur.

Louie Favorite / AJC

Rep. John Linder is greeted in Duluth by supporter Adebayo Oliyide.

U.S. House District 7 (GOP)
161 of 170 precincts reporting
Bob Barr	26,735	34%
John Linder	52,229	66%

U.S. House District 4 (Dem.)
173 of 174 precincts reporting
Denise Majette	65,402	58%
Cynthia McKinney	47,651	42%

[AppyPappy]

saleouts liberal

Pssst...sellout

[MadIvan]

Out of curiousity, how much annual "retirement" does Cythina, Bob Barr and the other defeated incumbants get?

I cite the example of Carol Mosely Braun, who in many respects is similar to Ms. McKinney (her grossest sin was to support the loathsome Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha) - one presumes that a future Democrat President will make her an ambassador. Since New Zealand has already been abused enough, perhaps they'll send her to Saudi Arabia?

Regards, Ivan

[commish]

Majette is a Yale Law Graduate and an excellent Judge

She is a liberal, but is no where near the whacko status of McKinney - she is very level headed and will serve her constituency well.

As an aside, While Majette is a Dem and Liberal - she voted for ALan Keyes in 2000 according to people in her campaign

[TomGuy]

I drifted over to DU a bit. Someone there said Majette was a conservative and had changed her registration to run against McKinney. Not being from GA, I don't know the backgrounds of either candidate. Earlier reports said Sen. Miller appointed her to her judgeship, and he seems to be very level-headed. Time will tell, I guess. It would be difficult for Majette to be any worse than Cynth.

[FreeAtlanta]

I don't know, but I don't think she is nuts. She gave a very powerful and thoughtful victory speech, without having to read it like McKinney did with her loser speech. I think she is going to do fine. I wish she was a conservative, but as much as we wish, we can't win'm all.

[makoman]

This is really good news. I expected McKinney to be around for ever. I guess her mouth was her biggest enemy!

[bert]

.....Amen, friend- Americans don't need McKinney's brand of divisiveness any more......

Why did she take a divisive position? She apparently offended some of her backers and lost financial and political support. What did she hope to gain?

[InvisibleChurch]

thankx and thankz !

[Feckless]

Now if we can just get rid of that Socialist Idiot, Shelia Jackson "Let's get the Mars Rover to check out the Apollo US Flag" Lee. She probably doesn't understand she can't burn a US flag in space.

[RandallFlagg]

Like I said a few days ago. I get home from work, turn the channel to Fox News, rip out the batteries for the remote and toss it in the backyard...

Try it. It makes life so much simpler....

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